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Iranian players pose for a photo ahead of a friendly soccer match between Russia and Iran at Volgograd Arena in Volgograd, Russia, October 10, 2025. (AP)
December 9, 2025, 2:12 pm
Iran objects to ‘Pride Match’ branding of World Cup soccer game against Egypt
Iranian Football Federation chief denounces as ‘irrational’ plan by host city Seattle to dedicate June 2026 match in support of the LGBTQ community; Egyptians also unhappy
By AFP
Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson smiles while delivering a victory speech during a news conference at the Seattle Labor Temple on November 13, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
November 15, 2025, 4:23 pm
Democratic socialist who accused Israel of genocide defeats incumbent Seattle mayor
Katie Wilson, whose insurgent campaign drew comparisons to Zohran Mamdani’s, beats early favorite Bruce Harrell as progressives galvanized by Trump’s return to White House
By AP and ToI Staff
The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. (Screenshot via YouTube/JTA)
August 22, 2024, 12:27 pm
Declaring ‘hate has won,’ Seattle Jewish groups vow to move museum exhibit elsewhere
Months after staff walked out at Wing Luke Museum claiming installation on antisemitism was ‘Zionist,’ organizers give up on working with original partners
By Andrew Lapin
The interior of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2016. (Screenshot via YouTube via JTA)
July 2, 2024, 6:30 am
US Holocaust museums slam vandalism in Seattle after police say it’s not a hate crime
‘The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust,’ say 7 museums after ‘Genocide in Gaza’ scrawled over photo of child who survived Nazi genocide
By Andrew Lapin
The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle. (Screen capture: YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 29, 2024, 6:52 am
Seattle museum staff protest exhibit on antisemitism: ‘Conveys Zionist perspectives’
Citing their ‘solidarity with Palestine,’ staffers at Wing Luke Museum hold walkout over ‘Confronting Hate Together’ display that Jewish and Black historical societies cosponsored
By Andrew Lapin
Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, April 16, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 21, 2023, 7:49 am
Tagged a day before Yom Hashoah, Seattle temple keeps anti-Israel graffiti as message
Rabbi of Temple De Hirsch Sinai says vandalism retained as reminder of present-day antisemitism, vandals’ timing ‘deliberate,’ wanted to be as hurtful as possible
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative -- Police officers jog toward an entrance at the Westfield Southcenter Mall after the shopping center was evacuated following a reported shooting, May 1, 2021, in Tukwila, Washington, south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
September 28, 2021, 4:53 am
After struggle, Seattle won’t bar local police from training with Israeli forces
Council narrowly opposes divisive motion whose lead sponsor calls Israel a human rights abuser; it’s the 3rd such proposal voted down by a US city since May’s Israel-Hamas conflict
By Ben Sales
The Islamic School of Seattle in 2007. Community figures hope to turn the property into a multifaith cultural center. (Screenshot/YouTube)
May 15, 2021, 3:15 am
In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together
The nearly 100-year-old building is in dire need of repair; an interfaith group envisions it eventually housing a multicultural community center, but first it needs a roof
By Emily Alhadeff
Ronit Plank with her mother in 1980, the first year after her mother returned from a year at Bhagwan Rajneesh Shree's ashram in Pune, India. Her mother wears the colors worn by the Rajneesh sannyasins (followers), and a mala (beaded necklace) with the photo of cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. . (Courtesy)
May 10, 2021, 4:21 am
Daughter learns to forgive but not forget mother’s involvement in cult
In new memoir ‘When She Comes Back,’ Ronit Plank delves into painful childhood memories of abandonment by parent who followed guru featured in Netflix’s ‘Wild Wild Country’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Raymond Duda, FBI Special Agent in Charge in Seattle, speaks during a news conference at a podium, about charges against a group of alleged members of the US neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division for cyber-stalking and mailing threatening communications, including the Swastika-laden posters at right, in a campaign against journalists in several cities, February 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
April 8, 2021, 12:18 am
US neo-Nazi pleads guilty to threatening Jewish activists, journalists
Cameron Shea, a member of the Atomwaffen Division, faces yearslong prison sentence for harassment campaign that involved cyberstalking, mailing of swastika-laden posters
By AP
This Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, photo provided by University of Washington Medicine shows rescued hiker Michael Knapinski, 45, of Woodinville, Wash., recovering at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. (Susan Gregg/University of Washington Medicine via AP)
November 15, 2020, 1:52 am
Seattle hiker dies in ER — and is brought back to life
Michael Knapinski’s heart stopped for 45 minutes before doctors were able to revive him with artificial life support; two days later, he woke up
By AP
Seattle's Bamboo Garden, the city's only freestanding kosher restaurant, closed July 31, 2020 (Facebook photo)
August 1, 2020, 5:53 am
Seattle’s only freestanding, certified kosher restaurant closes amid pandemic
Vegetarian eatery became kosher nearly three decades ago after local Jewish community contributed expertise and money to allow it to achieve certification
By JTA
A New York Police Department officer uses a stun gun on a demonstrator during a 'Solidarity with Portland,' protest, July 25, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
July 27, 2020, 2:24 am
Police and protesters clash in violent weekend across the US
1 killed in Texas when driver of car that drove through a crowd opened fire on an armed demonstrator, as protests continue over racial injustice and the killing of George Floyd
By JEFF MARTIN
Federal officers launch tear gas at a group of demonstrators during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse, July 26, 2020, in Portland, Oregon (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
July 27, 2020, 2:05 am
Portland protesters breach courthouse fence amid clashes with federal agents
Police declare a riot; Trump says he sent federal agents to halt unrest, but local and state officials say they are making it worse
By Gillian Flaccus and Sara Cline
Emergency personnel work at the site where a driver sped through a protest-related closure on the Interstate 5 freeway in Seattle, authorities said, July 4, 2020 (James Anderson via AP)
July 5, 2020, 9:37 am
1 killed, 1 seriously hurt as car rams protest on closed Seattle highway
Driver arrested; police investigating whether incident was a targeted attack, but impairment not considered a factor
By martha bellisle
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